Jane Fudyma

Potential PhD opportunity studying soil virus ecology in our group. Please get in touch if interested!

22.04.2025 18:24 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Three booths with white tables and tents are hosted by SBG graduate students. Pink and brown banners state "Soil Science Central."

A crowd of visitors are shown engaging with booth activities beneath three white tents. A paint pallet, brushes, and completed paintings are also shown

SBG students and faculty brought soil science to life last weekend at the 111th UC Davis Picnic Day! 🌱 Visitors explored Soil Science Central by painting with soil, learning texture-by-feel, and spotting live nematodes under the microscope. We love sharing our passion for soil with the community! 🤎

18.04.2025 01:34 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

The UCD Soils Judging Team is heading to Nationals!
Please consider joining Emeriti Michael Singer and Randy Southard in supporting our team at the National Championships in Wisconsin! Donations will support travel expenses so our students can proudly represent UCD on the national stage. Go Aggies!

12.04.2025 03:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Our account moved over from Twitter - give us a follow!

29.01.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Major, major congratulations to my colleague Joanne Emerson for receiving the PECASE! This prestigious award is recognition of amazing early career faculty who developed the most compelling and innovative NSF CAREER grants!

Joanne's lab pioneers the field of soil viral community ecology 🤩 🧪🧫

17.01.2025 01:53 — 👍 103    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

13.01.2025 21:07 — 👍 35    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

📣 All our sessions about advancing soil carbon predictions is today!

11.12.2024 11:05 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

If you signed up for the Soil Carbon Research starter pack and are heading to #AGU2024, don’t miss our session on integrating microbial complexity to advance soil carbon predictions! 🦠🌍 Featuring invited speakers: Christina Kaiser, Jackie Weissman, Katie Rocci, and Will Wieder 🤩.

06.12.2024 18:28 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 3

Author information for Session B11H, Poster 1429 at AGU24.

If you’re at #AGU24 next week and interested in enhanced rock weathering, let’s chat at my Monday morning poster! I’ll be sharing some lessons learned from our field trials over the last 5 years and exciting new work going on in California.

06.12.2024 19:38 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Scientist taking soil weight measurements in field

Scientist holding up soil probe sample

Soil samples in aluminum dishes for soil moisture measurements

Scientist taking GPS measurements in the pouring rain

Are you attending #AGU24 & curious about soil viruses? Bring your coffee & come chat w/me at my poster Weds morning titled “Resolving viral contributions to soil ecosystem functioning: a spatially designed multi-omic approach” Session B31I, Poster 1387. Pretty field pics below!

06.12.2024 16:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Working on phage research?

Dr. Catherine Hernandez and I are co-convening the "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" in-depth symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 and we want YOU to be part of it!

Abstract submission is now open!
More info below

🧪🦠🔬
#Phagesky
#Microsky

22.11.2024 23:07 — 👍 45    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 2

Different forms of mentoring Image Source: https://frntofficesport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mentoring-dr.-sara-taylor-1024x784.jpg

Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.

21.11.2024 00:11 — 👍 287    🔁 79    💬 4    📌 13

Screenshot from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=exams - the CRAN landing page for R package "exams". This page now includes the DOI 10.32614/CRAN.package.exams

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI!

This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors.

Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

11.06.2024 08:32 — 👍 223    🔁 112    💬 9    📌 21

Why do we need a computational taxonomy? A community challenge to evaluate and compare viral genome taxonomy classifiers

We finally put it together! The first ICTV #Virus #Taxonomy Challenge provides a dataset of thousands of contigs from diverse viruses, asking bioinformaticians to classify them in an automated, reproducible way. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... - tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

20.06.2024 07:08 — 👍 7    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0